Error Message:
Content file download failed. Reason: The server does not support the necessary HTTP protocol. Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) requires that the server support the Range protocol header.

You need to configure your firewall that it supports HTTP 1.1 ranges requests. Unfortunately I couldn’t reach our Firewall Administrator and I had to search for a temporary solution on my own.
You just need to change the settings, so that the BITS is working in foreground mode.

Temporary Solution Steps:
1. Install SQL Management Studio and run it
2. Connect to the DB:
\\.\pipe\mssql$microsoft##ssee\sql\query
3. Run following command on SUSDB:
UPDATE tbConfigurationC SET BitsDownloadPriorityForeground=1
4. Restart Windows Update Service

Notice:
The solution above worked for me on Windows 2008 R2 Server. But actually you could probably also do it with the solution below. The advantage of it would be that you don’t need to install SQL Management Studio on the Server.

You know the problem after a fresh windows installation. First you need to do all the windows updates and this takes some time to do it manually. This is the reason why I developed this script. I actually developed it for a packet manager called enteo but it can also be used without it.

Just download it and read the readme file carefully.

It is written in vbscript and can be easily adjusted to your packet manager. Use of course at your own risk!

Configure WSUS so Computer are assigned via GPO1. Open WSUS Console 2. Go to Computer/All Computers and create there a new Computer Group 3. Go to Options/Computers and choose “Use Group Policy or registry settings on computers.” 4. Open Group Policy Management Console 5. Create a New Group Policy and Link it to the right OU 6. WSUS Settings you will find in: Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update 7. Enable “intranet Microsoft update service location” Intranet Update Service: http://yourwsusserver/Intranet Statistics Server: http://yourwsusserver/8. Enable “Client Side Targeting” Target Group: Computer Group you created in WSUS (See step 3) 9. Check the other useful settings like Configure Automatic Updates and No Auto-Restart with logged on users 10. Restart one of the client computers and check if they are in WSUS Console listed in your new created computer group.

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